Muneate

Popular Traditional Japanese Costume

Muneate is an apron-like Japanese cloth used by artisans in Edo period. Japanese traditional clothes like happi coat open its front part, so people wore mune ate under them to keep their body warm. In Japanese festival, it is often wore on koikuchi shirts. It became a typical taiko player's costume effected by 50s Japanese film, Muhoumatsu no Issho (The Rickshaw Man). It is also called haragake and donburi.